Run

Who runs?  Everybody runs.  Well, not everybody is a track star but we all run.  What are we running from? Perhaps the more important question is: who are we running to?

It was my junior year in college and I was sitting in a biology lab.  Not my favorite place to be. Our professor always did a devotional with us each class period.  She told us how she struggled to find a devotion for this particular week.  So she just put on her itunes and asked God to show her what she needed to teach us.  The song Run Baby Run came on by Jason Upton.  The lyrics are as follows:

I?ve been calling you to go to the city
I?ve been watching you every day
Now I?m paying for a one way ticket
for a ship that sails the opposite way

And you laugh and you cry
and you live and you die
cause you don?t really know who you are
all alone in this world
orphan boy, orphan girl
cause you don?t really know who you are

Run baby run
my hands release you
baby run baby run
just as fast as you can
run till your legs lead your heart to the real truth
you?re my daughter, my son,
so run baby run baby run

Hear me laughing as you run from your calling
see me crying, see me crying in the storms that rage
one way or another, you will be going
to obey is such an easier way 

While she played the song for us she asked us to think about the meaning of the words and the impact it has on our life.  All I could do was sit there and allow my eyes to fill with tears.  I was the runner.  She pulled me aside after class to make sure I was okay and we talked for a bit.  I was running from God.  Not even knowing the direction I was headed.  Not long after I heard that song, I knew what I had to do.  I began to talk to God and let him in on what was going on. Once I did that, I stopped running.

Everybody is running from something or someone.  The question though is who are you running to? Is it God?  Is it man?  Is it materialistic?  Whatever it is, God already knows and he cares.  Stop running.  Turn around and run to him because he's the only one that will run to you.